Videos

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Author(s)	Title
Elsa Addessi, Claire Farrow, Charlotte Webber, Francesca Bellagamba, Flavia Chiarotti, Jacqueline Blissett, Amy T. Galloway, Laura Shapiro, Valentina Focaroli, Melania Paoletti, Giulia Pecora, Barbara Caravale, Corinna Gasparini and Serena Gastaldi	Is a baby-led weaning style related to motor and language development? Preliminary evidence from two cultures
Alejandro M. Andirkó, Juan Moriano and Cedric Boeckx	Building a timeline for the evolution of language subcomponents
Rie Asano	Evolution of cognitive control underlying language syntax and musical rhythm
Rachael Bailes, Christine Cuskley, Anton Ingason and Joel Wallenberg	Linguistic planning for information uniformity is an adaptation for noise resistance
Cristina Barés Gómez and Matthieu Fontaine	Mirativity and the lack of evidence
Yannick Becker, Olivier Coulon and Adrien Meguerditchian	The Arcuate Fasciculus disentangled: Different conceptions are depicting different evolutionary trajectories
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, David Gil and Ljiljana Progovac	Correlating declarative/procedural memory with language variation
Antonio Benítez-Burraco and Ljiljana Progovac	Self-domestication might have tied together (taming of) aggression with cross-modality, facilitating the evolution of languages
Tatiana Bortolato, Roman Wittig, Cédric Girard-Buttoz and Catherine Crockford	Development of vocal sequences in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)
Claudio Brozzoli, Simon Thibault, Veronique Boulenger and Alice Roy	Tool use and syntactic skills improve each other via shared neural patterns in the basal ganglia
Catherine Crockford	The patterning and ontogeny of chimpanzee vocal sequences and brain pathways
Michel DeGraff (plenary)	Creole formation vs. emergence of human language? Origins and evolution of “linguists’ most dangerous myth”
Rayn Epremian, Jonas Nölle, Christine Cuskley and Matthew Spike	True story: Narrative as an adaptation for the communication of social survival information
Rabia Ergin, Limor Raviv & Simon Kirby	How word order conventions emerge in the manual modality
J. Benjamin Falandays and Paul Smaldino	The Emergence of Cultural Attractors: How Informational Bottlenecks at Multiple Scales Support Collective Cognitive Alignment
Andrew Feeney	Can pragmatics account for unleashed expression?
Marco Gamba, Chiara De Gregorio, Daria Valente, Longondraza Miaretsoa, Teresa Raimondi, Olivier Friard, Valeria Torti and Cristina Giacoma	Rhythm and combinations of vocal signals: insights from the ‘singing primates’
Bart Geurts	Normative evolutionary pragmatics
David Gil	Bare and Constructional Compositionality
Austin Howard	Sound Symbolism in the Turkish Tongue: Ideophone Identification or the Iconicity of a Myth?
Sverker Johansson	How many protolanguages were there
Andres Karjus, Richard Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang and Kenny Smith	Colexification and communicative need in lexical evolution
David Leavens	Proto-declaratives in the Lab and in Nature
Shiri Lev-Ari, Ivet Kancheva, Louise Marston, Hannah Morris, Teah Swingler and Madina Zaynudinova	‘Big’ sounds bigger in more widely-spoken languages
Konstantina Margiotoudi and Friedemann Pulvermüller	Grounding sound symbolism in hand actions
Viktor Martinovic	Loanpy – A Framework for Computer-aided Borrowing Detection
Filipe Martone	How philosophy of language can contribute to understanding protolanguage
Theresa Matzinger, Eva Specker, Nikolaus Ritt and W Tecumseh Fitch	Aesthetic perception of prosodic patterns as a potential factor in the cultural evolution of language
Madeleine McGrath, Gregory Mills and Gareth Roberts	Turn-taking and the identification of humanness in a highly restricted interactive task
Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Danielle Naegeli, Marieke Schouwstra and Simon Kirby	Regularisation, harmony and naturalness in a silent gesture learning task
Roland Mühlenbernd, Slawomir Wacewicz and Przemyslaw Zywiczynski	The Evolution of Ambiguity in Communication Systems
Albert Newen (plenary)	Central roots of concepts in situated social interaction and their informational organization
Jonas Nölle, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Chaona Chen, Meng Liu, Robin A. A. Ince, Philippe G. Schyns and Rachael E. Jack	Understanding the semiotic affordances of human facial expressions using data-driven methods
Cailin O’Connor (plenary)	The evolution of vagueness
Aslı Özyürek (plenary)	Not only the past but also the future of language is likely to be multimodal
Aliki Papa, Mioara Cristea, Nicola McGuigan and Monica Tamariz	The effect of verbal instruction vs modelling on transmission fidelity of causally (ir)relevant actions
Giorgio Papitto, Angela D. Friederici and Emiliano Zaccarella	A behavioral pilot study on the retrieval of hierarchical information in mental representations of action and its segregation from language
Marek Placiński	Structural alignment and cooperation
Michael Pleyer, Sławomir Wacewicz and Przemysław Żywiczyński	Shared Evolutionary and Developmental Foundations of Pretence and Pantomime
Monika Pleyer, Michael Pleyer and Sławomir Wacewicz	Towards an Evolutionary and Naturalistic Approach to the Pragmatic Concept of Face
Michael Pleyer	Processes of Entrenchment and Conventionalisation in the Evolution of Language
Aleksandra Poniewierska, Aleksandra Szczepańska, Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński and Michael Pleyer	The Representation of Language Evolution Research in Introductory Linguistics Textbooks
Wim Pouw & Susanne Fuchs	Biomechanics as the primordial basis for the emergence of co-speech gesture
Limor Raviv and Cedric Boeckx	Complexity and Simplicity in the evolution of languages across species
Lola Rivoal, Leonard Samain-Aupic, Konstantina Margiotoudi, Maud Champagne-Lavau and Adrien Meguerditchian	Are Baboons Able to Consider the Other’s Knowledge State When Pointing? Theory of Mind & Neuroanatomical Correlates within the Superior Temporal Sulcus
Tim Sainburg, Anna Mai and Timothy Gentner	Long-range sequential dependencies precede complex syntactic production in language acquisition
Magdalena Schwarz, Theresa Matzinger and Nikolaus Ritt	Linguistic markers of group affiliation increase trust as much as other biological and cultural tags
Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Przemysław Żywiczyński and Sławomir Wacewicz	Predictors of communicative success in pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events
Fredrik Stjernberg	The use of questions in the evolution of language
Corina Strößner	Natural concepts in conceptual spaces
Kristian Tylén, Riccardo Fusaroli, Sergio Rojo, Katrin Heimann, Nicolas Fay, Niels N. Johannsen, Feix Riede and Marlize Lombard	Investigating the cultural evolution of the Blombos and Diepkloof engravings
Kristian Tylén, Zahra Alinam and Cordula Vesper	The cultural route to conceptualization of space
Greg Woodin, Bodo Winter and Marcus Perlman	The iconic impetus of language: From sensorimotor simulation to the lexicon
Przemysław Żywiczyński, Marta Sibierska, Sławomir Wacewicz, Joost van de Weijer, Francesco Ferretti, Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera and Valentina Deriu	Between universality and conventionality: a cross-cultural study of pantomimic enactments of transitive events
Nathalie Gontier, Andy Lock & Chris Sinha (convenors)	Theme session: Electronic book launch: Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution